The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-11-23
Bill NYE DOES UP BOSTON.
ne makes Some Asronfs hinc Discoveries and
Finds Chunks of Freedom.

BILL NYE DOES UP BOSTON.
he Makes Some Astonishing Discoveries and
Finds Chunks of Freedom.
SeV York Weird
For the past few DAYS the weather here has
oeen fair but threatening the upper coast
with brisk to bany winds com oined with tropi-
Gal snow-storrns aud changing to muSey depos-
ats or sleet as far north as Beacon street. fol-
sowed by cold thunder-storms lowering weather.
succeeded by rising barometer, sunstrokes and
sieigning. The wind has been variable TO fresh
with threatening atmospheric disturbances.
shifting from fair to middling and to briskly
soft winds, then back TO softly brisk winds, sky
warm to bright, with eager winds, variable to
partly changeahe again. Mildly tempestuous
about CAPE Cod with mackerel sky and slightly
threatened change in the weather itself.
In saying this l do not want TO go before the
people with a statement that would seem unfair,
and think have been fair in treating the
weather as fhe weather has been IN its treat
Eent OF me. / stood for half an hour on the top
Ct the new Globe building yesterday and locke
out over the city and Its environments Boston
was the first city in the young Republic to es-
taoilsh and properly maintain environments
and now there is hardly town in the United
States OF any size that would think it could DOS
sloiy get along without them From where we
stood we could see and gloat over Bunker Hill
and feast eyes upon the grassy slopes around
Boston, where British perspirariou had
helped to rear rude Notifications. and
Ehen, just as they began to grow green ana get
paying basis, they were deserted by
the invader. who suddenly went home and for
got, in his hurry to catch the boat, tnat ne nao
left his beautiful Notifications behind, and l
said to Colonel Taylor that, after all, was glad
that times had changed since then, and that 1t
seemed to the world had advanced wonder
fully in the settlement of great International
questions. "Eow much better it Is, said /,
looking away down Washington strees. where
man could be seen engaged IN the act or think
ing about something, ''how much better 1t is,"
continued, looking out across the blue and
balmJ bay with my large, mournful eye, that
long international differences must be set
81. 1rv%h 0f hat ie
he done by the arms of such men as Sullivan
and McAuliffe2"
Washington street has been greatly torn up
lately, and where the ruin was most CHASTITY
fragrant; where the soil most gluey and
grimy. and eummy. and tenacious; where .he
crowd deepened TO a torrent of courteous profan-
ity and cultivated riot OF ever-moving human
ity; where beautiful. red-cheeked girls were
jostied against grimy tramps, with clover-seed
and swallows nests in their whiskers there
where the tumult never died and the gas-leak
came out and made a few desultory remarks,
there congregated the greatest aggregation of
fakirs that have yet seen away from Coney
island. As you fought your way through the
great maestrom of youth and age. spepdor and
squaior, crushed violets and crushed TRACE
dams, satin and eoot money and mutton
taIlow, white and red nose, delegation of
citizens met You and saluted you. gentleman
knocked the flies off your face with a scourge of
porpoise-hida shoe laces at five cents; a
In a glected street dress and a nubia that
smelled like fried pork offered three boxes of
wax matches for five CENTS blue-noSed sci
enlist, plug nat OF the SplfZ variety, oHereQ
to sell you terra-cotta rubber ring that would
hold your watch in your pocket SO securely that
you couldn't even get it ont yourself Another
man played a tin warbler that would charm
the very birds of the bushes, for ten cents a
sad looking man, with bay rum on his breath.
offered quill toothpicks and tin mock-turtles,
and a wet-eyed party, with voice that had
been split up the back by making political
speeches to imaginary constituency. sold
chocolate caramels, which, according to
the Guy Carleton theory, started out
IN, thaS do fIsiv DIV lint
now, with the accumulated tan and freckle OF
long dusty and searching summer, had decided
TO assume the nom de plume of chocolate cara
mels. Further on the pedestrian was saluted
and canvassed in the interests of two-foot rules,
collar buttons. ear spoons, cut flowers, song
books, boot-jacks. cider, hot chestnuts. hard
ware, apples. circulars, statuary. secondhand
books, articles of vlrtu which did not claim to
be their own reward, DoD- corn. hne-combs, cook
stoves silk handkerchefs, diaries for rs, um bre-
las grapes, re-proof safes, eyeglasses, ferns and
Jack knives that contained four blades a cork
screw, opener, shoe horn, manicure set, mi
croscope, ear spoon, hot and cold water. scissors
fountain pen, soap and towels, screw-driver and
1anltor.
Gen. George Washington. retired army of
icer was named after Washington street He
had several of his headquarters IN Boston, and q
movement Is now on foot to have a reunion next
summer of Wasnngtons various headquarters.
to wind up with a cIambake and general good
feeling. General Washington while here
deared himself to everyone Even the mug
wuups still speak of him in the highest terms.
i
ton was closed by an act of Parliament, that the
cry went up all over this country, The cause
of Boston is the cause of ALL" and as there
was no way of settling the controversy by
means of an international yacht contest or
twenty -four-foot ring with without center
boards, it was decided to have some open hos
tilities.
The cry ITO arms" in lower case, ITO arms
In italics and ITO armsr' in small caps was fol-
lowed by & fratricidal strife which has not been
given that degree of prominence in the maya
ich ifs mn
ny opinion. fully justified.
Boston became at once the field Of strife.
respectfully of the long-waisted guns then in
use about Boston, disfgured the Common and
boarded themselves at one of her churches.
1t was during this war that General Washing
ton decided to establish one of his headquarters
there. and, finding a location that was handy to
street-cars, and within short ride OF Faneuil
Hail. he got rooms and established himself, and
had his trunk hauled up from the Providence
depot. While here have not heard word de-
rogatory to his conduct at that time. AS a sol
der he was uniformly courteous, and never
killed psople without doing SO In way which at
once won their respect and esteem
The principal defensive works for many years
consisted OF Fort Independence. or Castle Will
lam. as it was called. on Castle island The
principal offensive works of Boston seem to be
located near the fab market
Boston was founded in 1880, and was called
fremont or Tremontaine, because 1t was built
three points or hills. Ii was also called
Shawnut at one time In ITO there occurred
IN boston a conuict OcLWeen SoIue DrlIiSu SOL
diers and the popu.ace, which called the
Boston massacre. Mr.. Sullivan has recently
gone TO England to about it, and try to bring
about reconciliation between Boston and Eng
land.
In 1872 fire broke out in Boston, and owing
to the illness OF the horses connected with the
fire department the cnnhagration soon got be-
yond control and probably $27. 600. 600 worth of
buildings and $50 DOC, 900 worth of personal prop
erty were swallowed up by the fire fiend.
Benjamin Franklin selected Boston as suita-
BIRTHPLACE.
preferred the quiet of Quincy and were born
there
Property in Boston is high. but groceries are
not expensive. If you do not Ike baked beans
you walk on the Common. The man who
would be disseminated in Boston would be in
deed hard to please.
Boston brown-bread and the Parker House
roll had their origin here, and freedom can be
found here in large quantities.